Sustainable Healthcare Architecture - Hardcover

Guenther, Robin; Vittori, Gail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471784044 ISBN 13: 9780471784043

Publisher: Wiley, 2007

Synopsis

Design, restorative building, biophilia, enhanced air quality and high performance building systems.

Written by leading national experts on the subject -- one of whom was recognized by Time magazine as a green innovator -- Sustainable Healthcare Architecture is the key guide to designing sustainable healthcare facilities. Building on the authors? combined knowledge and experience, this book includes case studies of more than 50 of the best contemporary sustainable healthcare projects. The book also contains numerous essays contributed by other leaders in sustainable design and healthcare. Additionally, the authors provide background information on LEED for Healthcare, as well as on the Green Guide for Health Care, which they were instrumental in developing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Green design for hospitals and other healthcare buildings

"At its core, green building is about making the world a better place for people to live. As Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori show us in this important new book, nowhere is that fact more apparent than in the healthcare industry, where the sterile, imposing facilities of the past are being replaced by buildings that are filled with daylight, connected to nature, and, above all, are designed to promote health and well-being."
—From the Foreword by Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO, and founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council

Written by an architect focused on sustainable healthcare design and an expert recognized by Time magazine as a Green Innovator, Sustainable Healthcare Architecture is the key reference for the design of sustainable healthcare facilities. Building upon the authors' combined knowledge and experience, the book includes case studies of more than fiftyof the best contemporary sustainable healthcare buildings from around the world. The authors provide background on LEED for Health Care as well as the Green Guide for Health Care. Architects, interior designers, engineers, and healthcare professionals and administrators will find this to be an essential guide to the design of healthy environments for healing.

In addition to the authors' text, the book includes essays by experts on such topics as design and stewardship; the built environment and human health; ecology and medicine; nature and healing; the carbon-neutral hospital; the integrative design process and integrated operations; and creating the twenty-first-century hospital. Architects and interior designers will be able to apply the knowledge from the essays to the design of multiple building types.

Giving the term "healthy building" fuller meaning, Sustainable Healthcare Architecture is a much-needed guide to one of the most important applications of the concepts of sustainability in the built environment.

About the Author:

Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP, is the founding principal of Guenther 5 Architects, an award-winning New York City firm with a focus on high-performance healing environments. In 2005, she received The Center for Health Design's Changemaker Award for her efforts to improve and support change in the healing environment. Guenther serves on the 2010 AIA Guidelines for Construction of Hospitals and Health Care Facilities Revision Committee, and is on the advisory board of GreenSource magazine.

Gail Vittori, LEED AP, is codirector of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, an internationally recognized nonprofit design, research, and policy organization in Austin, Texas, where she has worked since 1979. She has served as secretary of the national board of directors of the U.S. Green Building Council and on the advisory board of Environmental Building News. Vittori received the 2002 Presidential Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She was named a Green Innovator by Time magazine in 2007.
Together, Guenther and Vittori serve on the LEED for Health Care Core Committee and were both instrumental in developing the Green Guide for Health Care.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0471784044
• ISBN 13: 9780471784043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464